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A Debate in Cosmology - The Multiverse

Conference Date:

Friday, April 20, 2012 - 17:00

The purpose of this meeting is to provide a forum for scientists from various fields to discuss, debate, and stimulate progress on one of the emerging fundamental areas of theoretical physics -- the idea that our observable universe is part of a multiverse.

This conference is a collaborative effort between Columbia University, Perimeter Institute and University of North-Carolina-Chapel Hill, and is the second of a series of meetings aimed at stimulating progress in outstanding topics in theoretical physics. The first meeting in this series focused on the Origin of the Arrow of Time and was held at the New York Academy of Sciences last October.

Perimeter Institute
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Oxford University
Columbia University
Columbia University
University of California-Davis
UC-Santa Cruz, Rutgers University
Arizona State University
University of California-Santa Barbara
University of Michigan
CITA
Perimeter Institute
University of Giessen

David Albert
Probability in the Many-Worlds Interpretation

Andy Albrecht
The Clock Ambiguity and its Implications

Tom Banks
The Lonely Multiverse of Holographic cosmology

Paul Davies
Ultimate Explanations, Turtles and the Nature of the Laws of Physics

Jim Hartle
Science in a Very Large Universe

Gordon Kane
From the LHC to the Multiverse

Lev Kofman
Collapsing and expanding multiverse

Laura Mersini-Houghton
What is the Multiverse?

Lee Smolin
How to Make Testable Multiverse Theories

Rudy Vaas
Multiversal Pictures: Science and Signs of Other Universes

This conference is co-sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.